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The Guiny Hen. Gallina Africana.
Numb. XXXV.
J T S Weight was two Pound; Length from the Point of the Bill to
the End of the Tail two Foot; Breadth, when the Wings were expanded,
thirty two Inches. It is for Bignefs equal to the common Hen, but
its Neck longer and llenderer: they are commonly of a dark Alh-co-
lour inclining to a black, all over chequered with white Spots; this
Bird was a Hen; the Breaft white, fpotted with large Spots of black
chequered with white: its Bill red, towards the Point of a horn Colour;
"the Top of the Head of a dusky Colour, on which grew a horny Sub-
■ftance of the lame Colour; the Pupil of the Eye black, the Irides
white; round the Eye on each Side of the Head was of a flelh Colour
intermixed with a pale blue; the back Part of the Head of a dilute redilh
brown, on which grew black Briftles Handing upright; the Bottom of the
Head on both Sides all along is taken up by a Kind of a callous Flelh of
a fanguine Colour, which, that it might not hang down like Gills or
Wattles, Nature hath taken care to turn backward and fold up, fo that it
ends in two acute Procefles; from this Flelh arife up on both Sides certain
Caruncles, wherewith the Noftrils are inverted round, and the Head in
the fore Part feparated from the Bill,, of the lower Edges are lightly re-
flexed back under both Noftrils; what is between the Crown; and this
Flelh on the right and left Side, - is marked with a double Icaly Incifure,
but behind with none.
The Colour under the Jaws or Throat is a dark purple; the Neck more
dilute, and fprinkled with fmall white Specks. The Number of quill
Feathers was twenty three, the firft four of which were white, as were
allb four of the firft Row of covert Feathers ; all the whole Bird, excepting
the Breaft, was of a dusky black, chequered with white Spots:
the Legs were of a redilh flelh Colour, in fome dusky; the middle Claw
in thefe Birds is longer than in the common H en; this which I drew
being two Inches and a quarter long. The beft way to raife them is,
by fitting their Eggs under the common Hen. The Right Honourable the
Lord Burlington was pleafed to fend me this Bird from his Seat at
Chi/wick.
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